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Article History

Accepted: 23 August 2023

First Online: 6 September 2023

Declarations

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: The manuscript we are submitting consists solely of secondary analysis of data in the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS). The NISVS was conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Information about IRB approval and consent to participate can be found here: The NISVS received Institutional Review Board approval from the Research Triangle Institute, International (p. 12). The survey administration included a graduated informed consent plan (p. 11).

: The NISVS administrators were keenly aware of the potential harm to subjects when collecting data on highly sensitive topics including intimate partner violence and sexual assault. As a result, the survey administrators took a number of steps designed to ensure the safety of the respondents. The interviews were collected by telephone. The graduated informed consent was used so that the survey topics were not revealed until the specific household member selected to take the survey was chosen. Interviewers received on-going training, which included how to establish a safety plan if the respondent needed to exit the interview for safety reasons. Interviewers were also trained to assess the respondent’s emotional state throughout the interview. Respondents were repeatedly told they could skip questions or stop the interview at any time. Finally, at the end of the interview, respondents were provided with information about the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.As a further step in protecting human subjects, the data were carefully de-identified. They were not released publicly until 2015. The data are archived at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Access to the 2010 NISVS required submission of an application outlining the proposed research plan to ICPSR and the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD).Dr. Cunningham and Anderson proposed a project entitled “Gendered Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization,” first to the Institutional Review Board of Western Washington University. The proposal was reviewed and approved at the University level in 2016, then submitted to and approved by ICPSR and NACJD. The agreement was renewed in 2022.

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: The authors declare that they do not have financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication.